The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-16
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters OF Money and Management
About Various Lines.

The citizens of Palatka, Fla, are doing all
they can to induce the Macon road TO make
that town its terminus Almost a sufficient
contribution has already been made to settle
the question. Palatka is never caught nap
ping when it comes to so important ques-
ton as this.
The South Florida railroad has surveyed
curve at the crossing of the Orange Belt
railroad. on the Pemberton Ferry branch,
so as to transfer the iron which they will
bring from Palatka for the Orange BelI
railroad, so that track-laying may be pushed
from the South Florida railroad on TO the
Gulf and not be compelled to await the com
pletion of the bridges across the Big and
Little Withlacoochee rivers.
4 peculiar injunction suit has been
brought against the Nashville American as
amusing as the famous injunction once
granted enjoining it from publishing any
editorials favoring protective tariff. This
is suit brought by J. w. Thomas, Presi-
dent of the Nashville Chattanooga and st.
Louis railway, and Milton H. Smith, Vice
President of the Louisville, Nashville and
Great Southern, to have the american en-
joined from publishing matter advocating
the building of the proposed Tennessee Mid
land railroad on more favorable terms and
in more conspicuous locations than matter
presenting argument agaist the same, all
being palQ IOf as advertising iHdIbsr
Smith and Thomas allege that the Anuri-
these terms, and then, when the
matter was offered. scratched great
deal of it as Objectionable" This
they deny the right of the paper to do,
just because the editors considered it OBJ
jectionable. The american also refused to
scatter their matter throughout the paper,
but put it all on one page, whereas they had
articles favoring the Midland on every page.
Compliments insist that the defendant has
no right to refuse, as a company, to comply
with the execution of said contract, simply
because complainant Smith, or any other
person, may see proper in some other news
paper to publish or insist upon matter which,
in the opinion of the American, may he re-
garded as an aspersion upon its management.
The compliments have no adequate remedy
at law, because the election being near at
hand, irreparable injury will be done them
by the refusal of said defendant to publish
matter advocating their side of the ques-
ton. Complainants are advised that under
such circumstances and to prevent such i'm
pending irreparable damage or injury. this
court will enjoin defendant from refusing
to publish in the american newspaper the
matter rendered them for publication. They
further pray that an injunction issue, re-
straining the defendant from refusing to
publish, in said American newspaper, such
matter in opposition to the granting of said
subsidy to the Midland Railroad Com
pany by Davidson county, and in
defense OF the compliments position on that
question, rendered by complainants for pub
LEGATION, under the terms and conditions of
said contract, and compliments further
pray that, in the event the injunction be
not granted in the terms aforesaid, de-
PENDANT be enjoined from publishing all
matter offered by the Midland Railroad
Company, favoring and advocating the
subscription of $4,000 by the county of
Davidson to the stock of said Midland Rail
road Company, until it publishes in its
newspaper, the american, the matter
furnished and intended for publication by
the cOmplainantS